How Your Relationship With Your Parents Shaped Your Ability to Regulate Your Emotions

Do you get easily dysregulated? Or struggle to get back to a regulated state when you are dysregulated? There’s a reason for that. In this episode, I connect your present experiences of dysregulation to your relationship — or attachment — with your primary caregivers when you were growing up. You’ll see how the emotional environment that you were raised in, and the ways that your parents interacted with and responded to you, shaped the way your brain learned to regulate emotions. I also talk about what secure attachment is, how to know if you developed a secure attachment bond as a child, how the presence or absence of this bond is directly linked to to your ability to self-regulate (and reach out for help) today. Get Faith & Feeling's weekly resource email When Everything Seems Out of Sorts with David Floge, LPC  Watch this episode on YouTube Grab a copy of my book Stop Saying I'm Fine Connect with me on my website  Find me on Instagram @__taylorjoy__